Essays on Novel

Latino literature encompasses the themes of storytelling and finding a sense of identity in a changing world, centuries after European colonizers set foot on free lands that harbored an abundance of natural resources and culture in regions of Latin America. Chicano literature is a more…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” demonstrates the absurdity of trying to make an impeccable being, and thusly, meddling with the domain of the awesome. Hawthorne passes on this message through the tale of the researcher Aylmer and his lovely spouse, Georgiana, who has a…

In Tim O’Brien’s “The Man I killed” guilt is a strong theme within the work. The narrator, Tim, is struggling with his whirlwind of emotions so much so that his own presence disappears within the story as he begins to focus more on the victim…

In the novel BONE we are introduced to a Chinese family living San Francisco’s Chinatown where they find themselves grieving from the recent suicide death of the three daughters Ona Leong. The emphasis is on how the family grieves after their loss, their cultural clashes…

Contemporary English fiction has attained international recognition and fame with the publications of numerous remarkable writers like Salman Rushdie, Vikram Sethi, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Amitav Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kiran Desai and Arundhati Roy. Arundhati Roy, through her writing, seems to hold up…

The Rickshaw boy was novel and written by Lao She, the main character was Xiangzi. He was an orphan farmer who worked for rickshaw puller in Beijing. He was optimistic and with the hope of his life, his dream is having his own rickshaw. The…

A structure The Handmaids Tale is a dystopian novel written by Margaret Atwood. It is set in “near-future” New England where a group of religious extremist that call themselves the Republic of Gilead overthrow the United States Government. This novel is not only dystopian but…

When Conan Doyle was writing about the Sherlock Holmes novels, he decided to be an objective writer. I firmly believe that this is because of the strict lifestyle and social order that existed during the Victorian era in New England. For Doyle to represent his…

“The Crystilleries of Echoland” by Dew Pellucid is a young adult novel about a hidden world called Echoland. This world is filled with Sounds and Echos, earthly people and their translucent, dimensional counterparts, however, the Law of Death in this world is causing thousands of…

Dear Erich Maria Remarque, My name is Paul Bäumer. I am just a teenager, nineteen to be exact, that’s trying to figure out what to do with my life. At least, I used to be figuring it out. About a month ago, I decided to…